On 30/05/2016 10:59, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > > Which law do you think would apply (other than the laws of physics)? > If it was legal for Nintendo to use the Ricoh 2A03 that was basically > a mask-level copy of the 6502, with some transistor(s) disabled to > prevent the patented BCD mode from operating, then I (not being a > lawyer) do not see any legal problem with the fine work that > visual6502.org are doing. U.S. Patent 3,991,307 on the 6502 BCD mode > should have expired by now too. Things changed around 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_design_protection Dumping the contents of an internal mask rom by decapping is also a copyright violation. However in both of these cases it would be a civil rather than criminal matter, so I wouldn't expect the police to turn up. Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2016-05-30 14:01:50
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